Flixwise Podcast

On today's show, we're touring around the dystopic Paris of the future featured in Jacques Tati's 1967 film, PLAYTIME. Joining host, Lady P, and Flixwise co-producer, Martin Kessler, to talk Tati are two stalwarts of the classic film blogosphere: David Blakeslee of Criterion Reflections and The Eclipse Viewer podcast, and Aaron West of Criterion Blues and the Criterion Close-Up podcast. Together, the panel marvels at the immaculately constructed city that Tati had built from scratch, and they laugh recounting how Tati's famous Hulot character bumbles his way through this world, leaving a path of destroyed bourgeois nonsense in his wake. PLAYTIME is one of the very few comedies in the Sight and Sound Top 50 - it's sitting pretty (ie barely functional) at #43. But in typical critic fashion, Sight and Sound has awarded a comedy that also works as a pointed social satire. As audience members, we wonder why some of the laughs get stuck in our throats. Perhaps it's because some of those laughs are at our expense. T